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Welcome to the LitCharts study guide on Zora Neale Hurston's Sweat. Created by the original team behind SparkNotes, LitCharts are the world's best literature guides.

In literature, paradoxes can create humor, express the confusion or frustration of a seeming impossibility, or make clear the absurdity of an unexpected situation.

The characters of nearly every story—whether in literature, film, or any other narrative—have some characterization. Here are some examples of different types of characterization.

Welcome to the LitCharts study guide on Loung Ung's First They Killed My Father. Created by the original team behind SparkNotes, LitCharts are the world's best literature guides.

Examples of Simile in Literature Writers use simile to add color and feeling to their writing and to allow readers to see something in a new way through the comparison that the simile creates.

The following examples of mood are from different types of literature: plays, novels, and poems. In each, we identify how the author builds the mood of the work using a combination of setting, imagery, tone, …

What's the Function of Point of View in Literature? Point of view is the means by which an author relays either one or a multiplicity of perspectives about the events of their story. It is the lens crafted by the …